OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Critical Social Policy is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
The UK’s hostile environment: Deputising immigration control	65
The Danish ‘ghetto initiatives’ and the changing nature of social citizenship, 2004–2018	26
Violent bureaucracy: A critical analysis of the British public employment service	19
‘Punishing those who do the wrong thing’: Enforcing destitution and debt through the UK’s family migration rules	16
A moral education? British Values, colour-blindness, and preventing terrorism	16
Social protection and inequality in the global South: Politics, actors and institutions	13
Safeguarding in Australia’s new disability markets: Frontline workers’ perspectives	11
The sidelining of gender equality in a corporatist and knowledge-oriented regime: The case of failed family leave reform in Finland	11
COVID-19 and the temporary transformation of the UK social security system	10
‘Ethical’ artificial intelligence in the welfare state: Discourse and discrepancy in Australian social services	10
Unreal, unsheltered, unseen, unrecorded: The multiple invisibilities of LGBTQI+ homeless youth	9
A critical systems evaluation of the introduction of a ‘discharge to assess’ service in Kent	9
Police–school partnerships and the war on black youth	9
Competitive clientelism, donors and the politics of social protection uptake in Ghana	9
The administration of harm: From unintended consequences to harm by design	8
Navigating multiple pandemics: A critical analysis of the impact of COVID-19 policy responses on gender-based violence services	7
‘Do they ever think about people like us?': The experiences of people with learning disabilities in England and Scotland during the COVID-19 pandemic	7
The politics of implementation: The role of traditional authorities in delivering social policies to poor people in Kenya	7
The banality of state violence: Institutional neglect in austere local authorities	7
The micro-politics of energy efficiency: An investigation of ‘eco-social interventions’ in western Switzerland	7
How does student activism drive cultural campus change in the UK and US regarding sexual violence on campus?	6
Is digitalisation of public health and social welfare services reinforcing social exclusion? The case of Russian-speaking older migrants in Finland	6
Regulating domestic and care work in Italy: Assessing the relative influence of the familistic model today	6
News media representations of people receiving income support and the production of stigma power: An empirical analysis of reporting on two Australian welfare payments	6
State tactics of welfare benefit minimisation: The power of governing documents	6

Poverty and human capital in Chile: The processes of subjectivation in conditional cash transfer programs	6
Dynamics of the policy environment and trauma in relations between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and the settler-colonial state	6
NHS charging for maternity care in England: Its impact on migrant women	6
Personalisation policy in the lives of people with learning disabilities: a call to focus on how people build their lives relationally	5
Targeting versus social protection in cash transfers in the Philippines: Reassessing a celebrated case of social protection	5
Sex workers’ peer support during the COVID-19 pandemic: Lessons learned from a study of a Portuguese community-led response	5
Client experience of street-level activation practices: Implementation of discourage policy in the Czech Republic	4
The status of homelessness: Access to housing for asylum-seeking migrants as an instrument of migration control in Italy and Sweden	4
Operating in the dark: The identification of forced labour in the UK	4
The continuing failure of UK climate change mitigation policy	4
Problem-solving for problem-solving: Data analytics to identify families for service intervention	4
Mapping mental health and the UK university sector: Networks, markets, data	4
Empowered or patronized? The role of emotions in policies and professional discourses on birth care	3
Assessing sick-listed clients’ work ability: A moral mission?	3
Activist conceptualisations at the migration-welfare nexus: Racial capitalism, austerity and the hostile environment	3
Policy paradoxes and the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Scheme: How welfare policies impact resettlement support	3
The precarious inclusion of homeless EU migrants in Norwegian public social welfare: Moral bordering and social workers’ dilemmas	3
Disciplinary and pastoral power, food and poverty in late-modernity	3
Intersectionality and structural gendered racism: Theoretical considerations for Black women, children, and families impacted by child protective services in the United States	3
Diversity vs the 2030 agenda. A deconstructive reading of the United Nations agenda for sustainable development	3
The politics of job retention schemes in Britain: The Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and the Temporary Short Time Working Compensation Scheme	3
‘I’m not going anywhere near that': Expert stakeholder challenges in working with boys and young men regarding sex and sexual consent	3
Guaranteed or conditional child maintenance? Examining the 2016 reform in Sweden	3
What fresh hell? UK policies targeting homeless migrants for deportation after Brexit and Covid-19	3
Sleepless in Taipei: The application of photovoice method to explore the major challenges perceived by homeless people facing multifaceted social exclusion	3
Contractual controls and pragmatic professionalism: A qualitative study on contracting social services in China	3
Teaching social policy as if students matter: Decolonizing the curriculum and perpetuating epistemic injustice	3
Networks of power and counterpower in social work with children and families in England	2
United Nations Policy on Sexual Exploitation and Abuse: Problematizations and Performances	2
Shattered glass piling at the bottom: The ‘problem’ with gender equality policy for higher education	2
Which capital do you mobilise? How bureaucratic encounters shape jobseekers’ social and cultural capital in France and Germany	2
Toward a critical race analysis of the COVID-19 crisis in US carceral institutions	2
Commodification and care: An exploration of workforces’ experiences of care in private and public childcare systems from a feminist political theory of care perspective	2
Food poverty and youth work – A community response	2
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality	2
Weaponising time in the war on welfare: Slow violence and deaths of disabled people within the UK's social security system	2
Inequality in the South African labour market: The political economy of the national minimum wage	2
More than words can say: Why health and social care policy makers should reconsider their position on informal interpreters	2
The State of the UK funeral industry	2